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The Barrel Pick Playbook
Everything else on this site is free and stays that way. This is the one thing that will not be: worksheets and templates for the parts a directory cannot answer for you.
Worksheets and templates. The sourced program facts stay free in the directory.
What's in it
- The 12-week timeline: every task from confirming the group to distributing bottles, with owner and target-date columns to fill in.
- The group budget worksheet: every line item a pick bills you for, with the formula in words and a blank for your own number.
- The cost-split template: what each person owes when the group is not splitting evenly.
- The distillery checklist, 15 questions: what to get in writing before you commit money.
- The retailer and three-tier worksheet: who the retailer of record is, what they charge, and what they have to sign.
- The pick-day timeline and tasting sheet: how the day runs, and a scoring sheet for the barrels you taste.
- The post-pick bottle split: label approval, pickup, and who gets how many bottles when the yield does not divide evenly.
- A glossary: the trade words that show up in a distillery's reply and nowhere else.
What it costs
$29 one-time. No subscription, and nothing to cancel later.
Checkout runs on Stripe. It hands you the download page as soon as the payment clears. One PDF, print it or fill it in on screen.
Why it costs something
The directory and the guide are a record of what distilleries publish. The Playbook is not that. It is original work product, the tools we wished existed while building the sourced pages. It is not a paywalled version of a fact that is free everywhere else on this site.